- Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organised The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia
| Born: | 18 October 1956 Comment | | How old is Rick Gates in 2024? / Age: | 67 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
Rick Gates Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Rick Gates worth? | Under review
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Rick Gates facts
- He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona
- In 1992 he started the monthly competition The Internet Hunt where questions had to be answered exclusively using sources on the Internet
- Utilities of investigation were Usenet, FTP, Gopher and Telnet (NCSA Mosaic, the first popular Web browser was first published in April 1993)
- When the World Wide Web became more popular, the competition was closed in October 1994
- On October 22, 1993, Gates proposed in the Usenet newsgroup alt
- internet
- services to collaboratively create an encyclopaedia on the Internet
- From this idea the Interpedia project evolved which is known as precursor to Wikipedia
- The original proposal was made by Rick Gates in the posting Internet AS Encyclopedia on October 31, 1993 of Douglas P
- Wilson in alt
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Last update: 07 August 2018
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